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78 relations: All Gods Children (book), Allegiance, American Civil Liberties Union, American Psychological Association, Amish, Anson D. Shupe, Anti-cult movement, Anti-psychiatry, APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control, Associated Press, Atrocity story, Bankruptcy, Biola University, Brainwashing, Carol Giambalvo, Christian countercult movement, Civil and political rights, Civil libertarianism, Coercion, Combatting Cult Mind Control, Conservatorship, Continuum International Publishing Group, Cult Awareness Network, Cyril Vosper, David G. Bromley, Dean M. Kelley, Denmark, Deprogramming, Dialog Center International, Documentary film, Douglas Laycock, E. P. Dutton, Ecumenism, Eileen Barker, Expert witness, EyeSteelFilm, False imprisonment, False premise, Faults (film), Freedom of religion, George Chryssides, Holy Smoke!, Idea, International Cultic Studies Association, Intervention (counseling), Jason Scott case, Johannes Aagaard, Kansas, Kidnapping, Love Family, ..., Magazine, Margaret Singer, Merced Sun-Star, Missiology, Nebraska, New religious movement, New York (state), Newspaper, PDF, Pentecostalism, Pittsburgh Press, Psychologist, Rick Alan Ross, Sleep deprivation, Sociology, Split Image (film), Steven Hassan, Stockholm syndrome, Sun Myung Moon, Ted Patrick, The Beaver County Times, The Family Survival Trust, The New York Times, Theology, Unification Church, United Pentecostal Church International, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Zondervan. Expand index (28 more) »
All Gods Children (book)
All Gods Children: The Cult Experience - Salvation Or Slavery? is a non-fiction book on cults, by Carroll Stoner and Jo Anne Parke.
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Allegiance
An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.
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American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with around 117,500 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students.
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Amish
The Amish (Pennsylvania German: Amisch, Amische) are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German Anabaptist origins.
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Anson D. Shupe
Anson D. Shupe, Jr. (21 January 1948 – 6 May 2015) was an American sociologist noted for his studies of religious groups and their countermovements, family violence and clergy misconduct.
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Anti-cult movement
The anti-cult movement (abbreviated ACM; sometimes called the countercult movement) is a social group which opposes any new religious movement (NRM) that they characterize as a cult.
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Anti-psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is often more damaging than helpful to patients.
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APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control
The APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control (DIMPAC) formed at the request of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1983.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Atrocity story
The term atrocity story (also referred to as atrocity tale) as defined by the American sociologists David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe refers to the symbolic presentation of action or events (real or imaginary) in such a context that they are made flagrantly to violate the (presumably) shared premises upon which a given set of social relationships should be conducted.
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Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.
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Biola University
Biola University is a private, Christian university and is located approximately 16 miles (26 km) from downtown Los Angeles, in La Mirada, California.
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Brainwashing
Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques.
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Carol Giambalvo
Carol Giambalvo is a retired exit counselor who has chaired on the Cult Awareness Network's national board of directors from 1988–91, and also sits on the International Cultic Studies Association's board of directors heads its Recovery Programs, and is responsible for its outreach program.
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Christian countercult movement
The Christian countercult movement or Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement of certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries") and individual activists who oppose religious sects they consider "cults".
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil libertarianism
Civil libertarianism is a strain of political thought that supports civil liberties, or which emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority (such as a state, a corporation, social norms imposed through peer pressure and so on).
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Coercion
Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of threats or force.
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Combatting Cult Mind Control
Combatting Cult Mind Control is a non-fiction work by Steven Hassan described as a "Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults." The author discusses theories of mind control and cults based on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger.
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Conservatorship
Conservatorship is a legal concept in the United States.
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Continuum International Publishing Group
Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.
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Cult Awareness Network
The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was an organization created by deprogrammer Ted Patrick that provided information on groups that it considered to be cults, as well as support and referrals to deprogrammers.
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Cyril Vosper
Cyril Ronald Vosper (7 June 1935 – 4 May 2004) was an anti-cult leader, Scientologist and later a critic of Scientology, a deprogrammer, and a spokesperson on men's health.
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David G. Bromley
David G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
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Dean M. Kelley
Dean M. Kelley (June 1, 1926 – May 11, 1997) was an American legal scholar, religious freedom advocate, author, and executive with the National Council of Churches (NCC), where his work was mainly concerned with religious liberty issues.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Deprogramming
Deprogramming refers to measures that claim to assist a person who holds a controversial belief system in changing those beliefs and abandoning allegiance to the religious, political, economic, or social group associated with the belief system.
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Dialog Center International
The Dialog Center International (DCI) is a Christian counter-cult organization founded in 1973 by a Danish professor of missiology and ecumenical theology, Dr.
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Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.
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Douglas Laycock
Douglas Laycock is Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a leading scholar in the areas of religious liberty and the law of remedies.
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E. P. Dutton
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Ecumenism
Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different Church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings.
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Eileen Barker
Eileen Vartan Barker OBE, (born 21 April 1938, Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
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Expert witness
An expert witness, in England, Wales and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.
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EyeSteelFilm
EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal-based Canadian cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression.
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False imprisonment
False imprisonment occurs when a person is restricted in their personal movement within any area without justification or consent.
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False premise
A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument or syllogism.
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Faults (film)
Faults is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Riley Stearns in his feature film debut.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance without government influence or intervention.
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George Chryssides
George D. Chryssides (born 1945), has taught at several British universities, becoming head of religious studies at the University of Wolverhampton in 2001.
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Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke! is a 1999 Australian drama film directed by Jane Campion, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Anna.
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Idea
In philosophy, ideas are usually taken as mental representational images of some object.
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International Cultic Studies Association
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a non-profit anti-cult organization focusing on groups it defines as "cultic" and their processes.
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Intervention (counseling)
An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
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Jason Scott case
The Jason Scott case was a United States civil suit, brought against deprogrammer Rick Ross, two of his associates, and the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), for the abduction and failed deprogramming of Jason Scott, a member of a Pentecostalist church.
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Johannes Aagaard
Johannes Monrad Aagaard (29 April 1928 – 23 March 2007) was a Danish theologian and evangelist.
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Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.
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Love Family
The Love Family, or the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon, was a U.S. communal religious movement led by Paul Erdman, who renamed himself Love Israel.
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Magazine
A magazine is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine).
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Margaret Singer
Margaret Thaler Singer (July 29, 1921 – November 23, 2003) was a clinical psychologist and researcher with her colleague Lyman Wynne of family communication.
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Merced Sun-Star
The Merced Sun-Star is a daily broadsheet newspaper printed in Merced, California, in the United States.
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Missiology
Missiology is the area of practical theology that investigates the mandate, message, and mission of the Christian church, especially the nature of missionary work.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
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New religious movement
A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or an alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and which occupies a peripheral place within its society's dominant religious culture.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a renewal movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals",.
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Pittsburgh Press
The Pittsburgh Press (formerly known as The Pittsburg Press), published from 1884 to 1992, was a major afternoon daily newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
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Psychologist
A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.
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Rick Alan Ross
Rick Alan Ross (born 1952) is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute.
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Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation is the condition of not having enough sleep; it can be either chronic or acute.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Split Image (film)
Split Image (also known as Captured) is a 1982 Canadian Drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley, Brian Dennehy and Ronnie Scribner.
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Steven Hassan
Steven Alan Hassan (born 1954) is an American mental health counselor who has written on the subject of mind control and how to help people who have been harmed by the experience.
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Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.
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Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명 Mun Seon-myeong; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support of social and political causes.
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Ted Patrick
Theodore Roosevelt Patrick, Jr. (born 1930) is an American cult-deprogrammer and author.
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The Beaver County Times
The Beaver County Times is a daily newspaper published in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States and serving the north-western Pittsburgh suburbs.
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The Family Survival Trust
The Family Survival Trust (FST) is a charity registered in the UK, established in order to support and offer counselling for members of abusive cults and similar organisations, and their families members.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Theology
Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.
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Unification Church
The Unification Church (UC), also called the Unification movement and sometimes colloquially the "Moonies", is a worldwide new religious movement that was founded by and is inspired by Sun Myung Moon, a Korean religious leader also known for his business ventures and support of social and political causes.
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United Pentecostal Church International
The United Pentecostal Church International (or UPCI) is an Apostolic Pentecostal Christian denomination, headquartered in Weldon Spring, Missouri.
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is an American public research university in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.
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Zondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming
